The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-04-15
WASHINGTON NEWS.


q. s. Dyer. Examiner of National Banks
In the State of Michigan, has resigned to go
into private business.
The Lighthouse Board Is preparing to be-
GIN construction of lighthouse at Pipe
Island and Marquette, Mich.
The coinage of the minis during the month
or March was So, 196, 9c0, of which 5000, 29J
was In standard silver dollars.
The Pension-Oilice issued 1000 pension
certificates FRIDAY. This is said to be the
largest number ever issued In one day.
The interstate commerce commission has
selected as permanent quarters the fifth
door of The Sun building. The annual
rental is $1,000.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
n n;aying made made request for temporary
terror detailed Maj. s. A. Jonas of that office
Tor that duty.
The bureau of labor has twenty-nine
agents IN the field investigating strikes and
iockouts from 1881 TO 1856 incl sive. The
agents are all inquiring into the condition of
workingmen in the cities and cost OF pro-
duction and distribution of staple articles.
Secretary Fairchlld has appointed Messrs.
John L. Irish, w. s. Bryant, and John +.
swift n commission TO select and purchase
property IN San Francisco on which to erect
q suitable building for a post0flice and court
mouse. There Is S5OoO0J available for the
purchase.
During The week ended March 26th, 1872
final homestead entries were approved by
the Commissioner OF the q neral Land
Onice, 354 final timber-culture entries, 4
desert land entries, and 751 cash iimt er-and
entries making total of $50 land patents
approved. There are SO, los cases pending
before the Office.
The secretary of the interior has requested
the secretary of war to place the western
portion OF Indian Territory, including Ok
ialoma, under the jurisdiction and control
OF single army officer, with instructions to
exercise extreme vigilance in the matter of
preventing an expected invasion of the
territory by boomers during the coming
spring and summer.
Acting Secretary Muldrow has sustained
the decision of Commissioner Sparks in the
case of Todd KnOpple Of Lamar, Col. The
decision holds that a qualified pre-emptor
who has exercised the right Of fling and
perfecting an entry OH the Usage trust and
diminishing the reserved lands in Kansas
under the act of May 90 $780, has exhausted
his presumption right to all other lands.
The civil-service commission announces
that 1t Is with difficulty that it is able to
supply the departmental demand for male
stenographers who are also type-writers, and
suggests that competent persons outside of
the district of Columbia who contemplate
passing civil-service examination in steno-
graphy and type-wrlting do so at once.
from 81, 900 to 81, 800 per annum.
There is much uneasiness among en-
ployes OF the Government Printing Office as
TO the tenure of the situations The adj
Journment of Congress left the force of about
one hundred men employed on the Record
out OF work. The Public Printer, however, {.
wished to retain the best OF them in the
Office, and consequently placed them in
other departments. This made reduction
OF force necessary, and each week since the
adjournment number OF discharges have
been made.
A novel claim has been presented at the
treasury department.. Some time ago the
customs collector at Portland, Oregon, seized
thirty-nine small cans. each of which was
designated as prepared opium, and all were
sold as such at the rate OF Sc per can,
Chinaman being the innocent purchaser
subsequently ne found that twenty-nine of
the cans contained oatmeal, worth about 81,
for which he had paid STA. He now asks
that the collector be directed to refund the
money paid.
The president has appointed George w.
Gordon of Tennessee to be commissioner
to select diminished reservation for the
Confederated bands of Cayuse, Walla-Waila.
and Umatilla Indians, vice George r. Pear,
son, resigned. These government directors
Of the Union Pacific railroad company.
whose terms have expired, were reappointed:
Frederick Il. COudert of New York, Frank
lin Macveagh OF Chicago, Alexander Has
kell of Columbia, s g., Marcus A. Hanna of
o., and James w. Savage of
Omaha, Neb.
Judge Maynard continues to act as second
comptroller of the treasurer, and will not
assume his new duties as assistant secretary
until Wednesday next The delay in MAX
Ing the change is due to Mr.. Maynard's |
desire to dispose OF certain important matters |
pending in the second comptroller's office. |
He Is pushing them as much as possible, as |
he realizes the necessity of promptly relieving |
Fairchild OF that part of his duties |
relating to the customs branch of service. |
Nothing is settled in regard to the treasurer |
ship or the second comptrollership.
The secretary OF the interior recently sub |
mtted to the first comptroller of the treasury |
Tor an opinion the question as to whether any |
II the expenses of the interstate commerce |
commission can be paid out of the contin. |
gent fund of the interior department.. The |
hrst comptrOller has informed him that the |
contingent fund can not be used for the pur- |
pose Indicated; that the appropriation Of |
800 900 made in section 90 OF the act Great
Ing the commission Is all the money that Is |
now available for its expenses, Office rent,
clerks hire, transportation, stationery, and |
else. He says that this amount |
will probably be sufficient up to the meeting |
lf congress, when, If 1t is necessary, a de-
hciency appropriation can be secured.
A NEW LAND TRIBUNAL.
Commissioner Sparks, of the general land
)itce, has issued an order creating contest |
board, TO which all contested cases now
pending or hereafter arising in the pre-
smpti0n and public lands decisions shall be
referred for examination and decision.
After action is taken by this board upon
/ contest case twill go to the board of re-
REV. The board is to consist OF five MEM
)crs selected from the several divisions of the
general land office.
NEW DBY-DOCKs.
Secretary Whitney has approved the report
II the board appointed to select the sites for
he two dry-d0cks authorized by the last
congress. The docks will be located at the
New York and Norfolk navy-yards and will
,e built by contract on the general plan of
he Simpson dry-dOcks. They will be con-
tructed of timber, and the dimensions will
e as follows: Length, 4S5 feet; width at
ne top, 125 feet; width at the bottom, go
eet The amount available for their con-
truction is 81, 1000 The New York dock
will cost more than the dock at Norfolk ow-
ng to the difficulty of obtaining good foun-
ati0n.
THE SOLDIERS HOMES.
Complaints are being made to the officials
. charge of the management of the soldiers
zones throughout the country that many of